So Mayer reflects on Si Pudiera Desear Algo (If I Could Wish for Something) (dir. Dora García) as part a series of […]
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Panel: The Power of the Bookseller, 30 Sept, online
Book now As part of International Translation Day, a conversation featuring booksellers and translators, exploring the vital, often hidden role […]
Writing
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Essay: Beyond the Pale, or Crossing Borders with The Books of Jacob, Hythe Digital Poetics 3.7
There is no spoon Olga Tokarczuk’s 1000-page opus Księgi Jakubowe was originally published in Polish in 2014, winning the Nike […]
Writing
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Dick Johnson is Dead: Falling Angels, Criterion
Dick Johnson Is Dead is a film about falling. It could have been a film about failing, in that its […]
Writing
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Essay: Keeping Watch: On the Re-release of Europa (1931), Frieze
In 1940, Stefan and Franciszka Themerson’s celebrated experimental anti-fascist film poem, Europa (1931), was looted by the Nazis from the […]
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Essays & Poems 2021
Essays, interviews and poems available online, published in 2021. For offline publications, follow the links on Anthologies & Magazines. ‘Missed Hands‘, […]
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Writing: Born into Armistice: Margaret Tait’s Pacific Cinema
This talk was originally given on Armistice Day 2018, the 100th anniversary of Margaret Tait’s birth, to introduce a screening […]
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Writing: Ways of Seeing, On Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours
This essay first appeared in Sight & Sound, 23.9 (September 2013). * Over the end credits of Jem Cohen’s latest […]